Third party DRM: Steam

Description

Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.

You find yourself alone in the mountains of the Alps. Discover strange contraptions, wild animals and the mysteries of an ancient culture. Uncover the Secrets of Rætikon in an atmospheric, open-world 2D game in which you fly like a bird and explore an uncharted world.

Secrets of Rætikon is an action-focussed exploration game with an open world. Fly through the savage mountains of the Alps and collect parts of ancient machines. The world is rich in interactivity. Trees, rocks, plants and animals – everything is physics based and can be grabbed and dragged around.

Hostile animals protect their habitats and interact with you as well as each other. Use this ecosystem to your advantage: drag a bird of prey to another predator and they attack each other; grab a robin and feed it to a buzzard – it will attack the poor bird instead of you; defend yourself by wielding spiked plants or by pushing foes into thornbushes.

Key Features:

Single player campaign

An emergent ecosystem influenced by your actions

A living, breathing world where everything is physical

Many different kinds of animals

An epic story told in Raetic runes

Huge animal kings and ancient contraptions

Achievements and Stats

Play creatively and solve puzzles the way you want

Full game editable via the built-in level editor

Easily share your self-designed levels via Steam Workshop

Customer reviews

88

Beautiful and Engrossing

This is a highly stylized and gorgeous game where you play as a bird. The controls are fairly basic, you fly using the arrow keys (a controller would work better), there's a boost, and you can grip things. You fly around and interact with the environment and other animals, which either avoid you, attack, or try to steal from you.

As you explore, you discover devices that are powered by the slivers you collect. There are also runes to decode that give you fragments of information. Everything is set out for you to discover. And the interesting and beautiful design, mixed with the calming music, makes this a very pleasant experience.